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Summary: excellent
Review: this book is filled with profound thoughts and insights that let one know what the horrible concentration camps were like and how one changes after experiencing them. this book also tells how one's past molds the future and what life is after such horror and death. it is a great book that everyone should read.
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Summary: Emotional, Eloquent, And Largely Without Hope
Review: This collection consists of a biography and two novels by Elie Wiesel, who survived the horror of the concentration camps in World War II. Dawn: Dawn is perhaps the most thought-provoking and reflective of all of Elie Wiesel's novels. It is a beautifully written but disturbing novel about an Israeli terrorist waiting to assassinate a British officer in retaliation for the hanging of an Israeli. This novel inspires a great deal of thought about stopping violence with violence and hate with hate. When the nation of Israel was established after World War II, for the first time in centuries, the Jews were not trying to appease their opressors, but they were fighting back, and fighting effectively. Reflecting on the persecution the Jews have suffered, the young assassin Elisha says: "Now our only chance lies in hating you, in learning the necessity of the art of hate." However, Elisha cannot make himself hate his enemey, as much as he desires to. The novel ultimately suggests that hatred is not the answer, that it must be fought, or man will be lost. Wiesel asks the poignant question, "Where is God to be found? In suffering or rebellion? When is a man most truly a man? When he submits or when he refuses?" Night: Night is a powerful, beautifully written autobiography of a concentration camp survivor. Elie Wiesel deals with his loss of faith during the holocaust, and relives the horrors of the concentration camp. Perhaps most importantly, he shows how such a life affected the people in the camps--how it changed many of them into something less than human. The question of injustice is indeed an unsettling one, but Wiesle's loss of faith--and the seeming impossibility (at the end of the book) of his ever regaining it--is deeply saddening. The Accident: Wiesel's writing style makes this novel, a mixture of biography and fiction, interesting to read. The story itself, however, is often obscure and stubbornly depressing. The narrator of the novel refuses to admit any happiness to his life, even when it is quite possible to do so. The Accident is the most consistently pessimistic of Wiesel's three novels, and the least thought-provoking, but still well worth reading.
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Summary: An Outstanding Trilogy
Review: This is a case where the whole is greater than the sum of its' parts. Although all three books are very good to excellent, the way they fit together creates an excellent story from beginning to end. We start with "Night" which creates the understanding of the Holocaust through the perceptive eyes and ears of the youthful story teller. We then move to the book "Dawn" in which we find the main character as a young man who is involved in a moral dilemna. How he resolves the dilemna makes him realize that there is evil in all of us. His attempt to rationalize his actions are not sufficient to redeem himself in his own mind. We finish up with "The Accident" where we find the main character as a middle-aged man whose anger at the world makes him incapable of love. Certainly all that has preceded in his life helps us to understand his feelings but his anger is uncompromising and a dead end in and of itself. The problem resolves itself in a solution that brings an impressive closure to essentially all three books. As a matter of clarification, each novel is a seperate story in itself. There is no "common Character" to all the novels. However, we get a sense that this all happens to one person. This is how well these stories fit together. Essentially, these works would appear to be autobiographical which adds to their meaning. Although Wiesel writes extensively about the Holocaust, there is certainly a special common thread to these stories. Read all three and make sure you read them in their proper order. Despite their brevity, it is as good an overall explantion, evaluation and summation of the Holocaust as you will find.
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Summary: An Outstanding Trilogy
Review: This is a case where the whole is greater than the sum of its' parts. Although all three books are very good to excellent, the way they fit together creates an excellent story from beginning to end. We start with "Night" which creates the understanding of the Holocaust through the perceptive eyes and ears of the youthful story teller. We then move to the book "Dawn" in which we find the main character as a young man who is involved in a moral dilemna. How he resolves the dilemna makes him realize that there is evil in all of us. His attempt to rationalize his actions are not sufficient to redeem himself in his own mind. We finish up with "The Accident" where we find the main character as a middle-aged man whose anger at the world makes him incapable of love. Certainly all that has preceded in his life helps us to understand his feelings but his anger is uncompromising and a dead end in and of itself. The problem resolves itself in a solution that brings an impressive closure to essentially all three books. As a matter of clarification, each novel is a seperate story in itself. There is no "common Character" to all the novels. However, we get a sense that this all happens to one person. This is how well these stories fit together. Essentially, these works would appear to be autobiographical which adds to their meaning. Although Wiesel writes extensively about the Holocaust, there is certainly a special common thread to these stories. Read all three and make sure you read them in their proper order. Despite their brevity, it is as good an overall explantion, evaluation and summation of the Holocaust as you will find.
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Summary: Informative
Review: This novel was informative. It is made of three sections of false and true acounts of the Holocaust. The first part, Night, is a truthful autobiographical account of a consentration camp. It definately helps a person understand how to feel about survivors and vitims of the Holocaust. You will have a new respect for these people after reading a first hand account of what they went through. Dawn is a fictional story about a young man of 18 after his experience in a camp. The symbolic meaning between the two books, Night, being symbolic of death, second, Dawn, a re-birth, is another way to make one think about what happened not only during, but after the war. It may not be a first hand account, but it did happen. Things like this still happen today. The Accident. This is the third book, also fictional. Mostly symbolic, as the others, it is different than one may think. It contains symbolism of death and dawning. It shows how the conditions of war affect a person's being. Just as fighting in a war affects someone, so does being a victim of war, a representitive. Things like this still happen today. People need to be aware of these things. Discrimination, war, and for the most part hate and intolerance. This book will help to open your eyes and your mind.
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Summary: Metaphors of Horror
Review: Wiesel commands the heart and soul of his readers in The Night Trilogy. There are a certain number of books that reach a person at the most elemental level and show them light and also unforgettable darkness. The Night Trilogy does this without pretense, without effort and without excuse. Many people have read Wiesel's account of Auschwitz and Buchenwald through his short novel, Night. If anyone is going to read Holocaust literature they should not limit themselves to a concise focus on the camps, but also what happens to the survivors after the events. When you combine Night, Dawn, and The Accident together, you as the reader can assemble a true and purer understanding of what Holocaust survivors went through and more importantly what they continue to go through. The collection is a must read for anyone who considers themselves socially aware. The Night Trilogy is a work that you will go back to time and again. Readers will lend this out to friends not simply to be nice, but because they will feel a yearning for all those in their lives to know what happened and is still happening to Holocaust survivors. Read this collection until your heart bleeds and pass it on to a friend so that compassion and understanding will bloom.
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Summary: Death is alive!
Review: Wiesel is of all eyes, all his eyes are of death. Death is alive in the Night Trilogy. The Night Trilogy speaks of unforgetable horror that took place during World War II. This book not only speaks of what went on during the Holocaust but also how it effected the lives of the survivors. By combining Night, Dawn, and The Accident, Weisel captured the entire perspective of the Holocaust. Elie Weisel showed great symbolism within all three sections of the novel. Connecting into a whole, the three novels gave a view of the many emotions expressed throughout Elie Weisel's life. This trilogy deserves to be shared throughout the world. All who consider death as a final end when one dies should read Weisel's opinion. Surprisingly enough Elie Weisel captures you in his world of eyes. "Death is a being without arms or legs or mouth or head; it is all eyes. If ever you meet a creature with eyes everywhere, you can be sure that it is death." - Kalman, grizzled master.
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Summary: A Powerfull Message
Review: Wiesel's The Night Trilogy has a different effect to each of its readers. This book is filled with many metaphors and symbolic phrases. Each one being traced back to the death of those who were close to the narrator. The book shifts from the incidents of the Holocaust to other events in the narrator's life. The overall story takes place during the events of three combined novels. Each unique in its own way, but combined, tell the story of a Holocaust survivor. The novel Night tells the story of a pre-adelescent boy who witnesses life in a ghetto and Holocaust camp first hand. Dawn shows the changes that occur in the narrators life after the Halocaust. His outlook on his life and others changed along with his religion. The Accident depicts the discovery of Wiesel's reason for living. Overall the Trilogy is filled with a sense of the Holocaust and the effects of it on an individual.
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